The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights

Sheinkin, Steve (author.). Roaring Brook Press, (publisher.).

Summary: Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.

Item details

ISBN: 9781596437968
ISBN: 1596437960
ISBN: 9781596439832
ISBN: 9780605795303
ISBN: 0605795304
Physical Description: print
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edtion.
Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	First hero -- The policy -- Port Chicago -- Work and liberty -- The lawyer -- Hot cargo -- The explosion -- The inquiry -- Column left -- Prison barge -- The fifty -- Treasure Island -- Prosecution -- Joe Small -- The verdict -- Hard labor -- Small goes to sea -- Epilogue: Civil rights heroes.
Awards Note:	Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction finalist, 2015. Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner, 2014. Please see this link for futher information: http://www.hbook.com/2014/05/news/boston-globe-horn-book-awards/2014-boston-globe-horn-book-awards-excellence-childrens-literature/#_

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Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction: Finalist -- 2015.
History.
Juvenile works.
Young adult nonfiction.

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